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Why would anyone use big words when they could use little words that people understand?


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Damn right Pat, it's unconscionable! smile


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Balderdash!


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Why have big words if you don't use them?

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I know right? So sesquipedalian.


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Superfluous.


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Antidisestablishmentarianism runs rampant here.


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Originally Posted by EthanEdwards
Why have big words if you don't use them?


Yes... universally acknowledged


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Regarding the Covid Jab, floccinaucinihilipilification is the predominant tactic.


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I think the use of those big words is really just an attempt at prestidigitation and legerdemain.

Obfuscations too.


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I hate it when someone uses a large word when a diminutive one would do.


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Malapropisms then abound.


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It a really dumb thing to do, unless you're intent is to use it as some sort of code.


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Originally Posted by ltppowell
It a really dumb thing to do, unless you're intent is to use it as some sort of code.


Eschew Obfuscation, Espouse Elucidation!

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Try to get it done in as few words as possible. Beer, sex, food.

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Originally Posted by ltppowell
It a really dumb thing to do, unless you're intent is to use it as some sort of code.

Spot on.

It gives some people a feeling of superiority. They tend to be arrogant.

Others were just raised in an academic environment, a leftover from the times and beliefs that an education was a good thing and that it would make your life better.

Now it is used by the first type mentioned to place themselves above the rest of us. Don't speak their lingo? Get away, you unwashed masses.

Big words were meant to be more precise and exacting. I believe the Age of Reason and the Industrial Revolution spurred research into metallurgy and chemistry, and thus education in general. To get your non mathematical ideas across though post of book, you had to use the exactly correct words. It was an scientific and academic arms race into the Age of Imperialism.

All this exactness and precision are useless when trying to get a point across to my wife. It is folly to try.

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However, it can be bit of fun.

Do you remember the scene in "Braveheart" when the darling prince's boyfriend was thrown out of the window of the tower to his death?

Did you know there is a word for that?

Defenestration
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For other uses, see Defenestration (disambiguation).

Matthäus Merian's impression of the 1618 Defenestration of Prague
Defenestration (from Modern Latin fenestra[1]), is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.[2] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years' War. This was done in "good Bohemian style", referring to the defenestration which had occurred in Prague's City Hall almost 200 years earlier (July 1419), which also on that occasion led to the Hussite war.[3] The word comes from the New Latin[4] de- (down from) and fenestra (window or opening).[5


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